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a bril meant play by jon jay with the backhand right on the ground. blanco had gone around second base. now allen craig and everybody on the card infield are saying that he is out of the baseline, and now first base umpire, miller, will get help from gibson. >> meanwhile craig is saying he tagged him, and looked like he got him on the back. >> tim: he did. >> joe: we will get a conference now with the umpires. and he got him on the back. >> tim: he clearly did. >> joe: it should be a double play. miller had a great view of it, but didn't see it. and if somebody else saw something different, then they will call him out. if not, it will be one on, one out. and nobody saw it. >> tim: of course, that is not reviewable. mike matheny arguing, but bill miller -- i beg your pardon, gibson, second base umpire, would have had the best shot at it but he was out in center field making sure that jon jay made the catch, which he did. >> joe: and matheny is still letting bill miller hear it. take a look at the positioning of the umpires. greg gibson, the second base
a bril meant play by jon jay with the backhand right on the ground. blanco had gone around second base. now allen craig and everybody on the card infield are saying that he is out of the baseline, and now first base umpire, miller, will get help from gibson. >> meanwhile craig is saying he tagged him, and looked like he got him on the back. >> tim: he did. >> joe: we will get a conference now with the umpires. and he got him on the back. >> tim: he clearly did. >>...
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jon jay at the plate. strike one. >> tim: you said xavier is a sidearmer and that is what makes him so difficult to hit if you're a left-handed batter. he drops down and you want to bail out. >> joe: lopez trying to keep it a two-run game. got two quick strikes on jon jay. officially a three-hour, 28-minute rain delay. a few have left. majority have stayed. kontos the right-hander getting loose. it's an 0-2 count on jon jay. ball one. the giants in their half of the eighth inning will have the bottom three in their line-up. gregor blanco, brandon crawford, a pinch hitter. >> joe: the 1-2. slow roller up the first base line. it's foul. the ball had so much spin on it, jay had to run in case it decided to veer back to the left and go in to fair territory. stays 1-2. >> tim: there is that side arm delivery of javier lopez. that is a two-seam fastball. in on the hands of jon jay. throws the two-seamer inside, the four-seamer away, and that wicked slider. he's tough. >> joe: part of a very good bullpen for bruc
jon jay at the plate. strike one. >> tim: you said xavier is a sidearmer and that is what makes him so difficult to hit if you're a left-handed batter. he drops down and you want to bail out. >> joe: lopez trying to keep it a two-run game. got two quick strikes on jon jay. officially a three-hour, 28-minute rain delay. a few have left. majority have stayed. kontos the right-hander getting loose. it's an 0-2 count on jon jay. ball one. the giants in their half of the eighth inning...
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and then jon jay against mijares, with jason motte. the cardinal closer getting loose. will have at least a two-run lead in the bottom of this ninth. kozma. strike two. kozma with an rbi single, a stolen base, a run scored in the four-run fourth for st. louis. each side got more in the fourth. after the cardinals got two in the second and the home run by freese. that is all the scoring. fouled back. kozma, not a big guy. he gets a pretty good riff. the count still 0-2. not only does he have a single. for an rbi. but he has lined out to left. >> joe: another 0-2. down for ball one. the giants in their half of this ninth will have the eight, nine and one spot. crawford, pinch-hitter and pagan. two pinch-hitters at the start. kozma strikes out. >> tim: wow! what a disappearing slider by mijares. watch this ball break. it disappears on kozma. missed that ball by eight inchs. that is nasty right there. >> joe: so one out, shane robinson will come off the bench to bat for boggs. one scoreless inning for mitchell. after mujica struck out the side in the seventh. rosenthal work
and then jon jay against mijares, with jason motte. the cardinal closer getting loose. will have at least a two-run lead in the bottom of this ninth. kozma. strike two. kozma with an rbi single, a stolen base, a run scored in the four-run fourth for st. louis. each side got more in the fourth. after the cardinals got two in the second and the home run by freese. that is all the scoring. fouled back. kozma, not a big guy. he gets a pretty good riff. the count still 0-2. not only does he have a...
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jon jay. ground ball to first. starts jay with a strike. he's got great action. javier lopez. the 0-1. strike two. so hard on left-handed hitters. >> tim: yeah, when he drops down, as we said last night, the front side comes out of there and you really have no chance. lopez born in puerto rico. moved to washington, d.c., when he was three years old. his dad was an f.b.i. agent. that is what he wanted to be. however, i think he chose the right profession. >> joe: he found a niche. sidearming left-handed specialist. always looking for this type of guy. >> tim: that's right. that is really what the cardinals don't have. >> joe: they have more conventional left-handers, rzepczynski. this guy is deadly on left-handed batters and he gets a strike-out to start his night. one away. give you now the ups logistics plays of the game. back to the fifth. the double by matt carpenter. matt holliday with a hit. relay home. got away from sanchez. then yadier molina knocked home matt holliday. a two-run fifth inning. two more in the sixth. two more in the seventh. 8-1 lead. that is delivered b
jon jay. ground ball to first. starts jay with a strike. he's got great action. javier lopez. the 0-1. strike two. so hard on left-handed hitters. >> tim: yeah, when he drops down, as we said last night, the front side comes out of there and you really have no chance. lopez born in puerto rico. moved to washington, d.c., when he was three years old. his dad was an f.b.i. agent. that is what he wanted to be. however, i think he chose the right profession. >> joe: he found a niche....
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. >> joe: here's jon jay, who has one of the five cardinal hits. strike 1. affeldt has retired all three hitters he's faced. jay with a single, a strikeout and a groundout. mitchell boggs gets loose. good breaking ball has jay flinching, it's 0-2. ball 1. we talked about the cardinals throwing the 3-1 series lead to the braves with great pitching back in 1996. when they lost games five, six and seven, they lost 14-0, 3-1, 15-0. so one run scored for the cardinals the final three games in '96. if they are shutout here tonight, it will be one run scored in the final three games to blow that three-games-to-one advantage here in 2012. jay lays off that pitch in the dirt. 2-2. that was tony la russa's game back in '96. jay holds up. 2-2. >> tim: tony la russa that year replacing joe torre. joe torre, 1996, everybody knows the manager of the new york yankees and they go on to win a world championship. >> joe: here's the 3-2. jay takes a two-out walk and that didn't miss by much. it will bring in the switch-hitting beltran with two out. >> tim: one thing about the
. >> joe: here's jon jay, who has one of the five cardinal hits. strike 1. affeldt has retired all three hitters he's faced. jay with a single, a strikeout and a groundout. mitchell boggs gets loose. good breaking ball has jay flinching, it's 0-2. ball 1. we talked about the cardinals throwing the 3-1 series lead to the braves with great pitching back in 1996. when they lost games five, six and seven, they lost 14-0, 3-1, 15-0. so one run scored for the cardinals the final three games in...
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. >> joe: it brings in jon jay, who is 0 for 3 tonight. hitting .200 in this nlcs. he waits. he takes the strike. jay has flied to left, grounded out twice. 0-2. the last time the cardinals were shout out in a postseason game, game four of last year's world series in arlington, texas, the game started by derek holland, who last the 8 1/3. upstairs, the count 1-2. it evened that world series at two games a piece. here's the 1-2 pitch. just outside. 2-2. >> tim: close. >> joe: the next from zito. chopped foul right at the plate. the cardinals started this night trying to wrap up their 19th national league pennant. the giants are looking for therapy 19th and if they do it they will become the third team in nlcs to come back from three games to one. that's a fair ball. he looks back at the umpire as jay is on with one out here in the eighth. >> tim: it may have landed foul, but it went over the bag fair. all it has to do, of course, is go over the bag. good call by first base umpire jerry layne. >> joe: you see belt look back at jerry layne. it's a one-out single. the batter is b
. >> joe: it brings in jon jay, who is 0 for 3 tonight. hitting .200 in this nlcs. he waits. he takes the strike. jay has flied to left, grounded out twice. 0-2. the last time the cardinals were shout out in a postseason game, game four of last year's world series in arlington, texas, the game started by derek holland, who last the 8 1/3. upstairs, the count 1-2. it evened that world series at two games a piece. here's the 1-2 pitch. just outside. 2-2. >> tim: close. >> joe:...